I don't think it would be a system seller, it would be a franchise killer.I really doubt Atlus could just keep doing their stuff as they like on Nintendo, not to mention eventually it would end up like other smaller games published by Nintendo that have never come to the west or the ones fans had to beg for it and someone else brought them over.

Don't get me wrong, I love a bunch of Atlus games on Nintendo's platforms (especially the portable ones) but I think them being owned by Nintendo would be a big hit in their creative freedom.I also don't want Sony to buy them, as I'd prefer them to stay 3rd party, but at least Sony seems to give its developers much more freedom to try new stuff and time. The time it took for GT5, the game from Team ICO that never got released, their Siren team that also took their sweet time to make Gravity Rush and so on. Now the first two were huge money grabbers but Atlus games are a lot cheaper to make and have much smaller goals, so a game that takes forever to be made like Persona 5 could take its time and be ready just when it's ready.

I just want Persona 5. I love that series so much I would go where it goes. I would even buy a vita. For me personally, it would be a system seller. Had my Wii not died, I would not have gotten a WiiU just for P5.

Does Nintendo rush games? From a WiiU owner standpoint it seems like I have been waiting a long time even for their first party games. As for restrictions on creative freedom, I hope that never happens.

Actually, they wouldn't end up like Quest since what happened to Quest was that Square hired away the leading talent of the team and left the remnants to flounder about on games like Hoshigami and Stella Deus (in fact, what ultimately ended up happening to the parts of Quest that Square didn't cannibalize back in the day went to Atlus).

I don't think it would be a system seller, it would be a franchise killer.I really doubt Atlus could just keep doing their stuff as they like on Nintendo, not to mention eventually it would end up like other smaller games published by Nintendo that have never come to the west or the ones fans had to beg for it and someone else brought them over.

Don't get me wrong, I love a bunch of Atlus games on Nintendo's platforms (especially the portable ones) but I think them being owned by Nintendo would be a big hit in their creative freedom.

I disagree. Have you seen Soul Hackers or SMT4? They seem unchanged compared to previous games. Plus, WiiU's aren't exactly flying off the shelves these days. Nintendo isn't in a position anymore to be able to stifle a developer's creativity when their games are known to sell well and get away with it unscathed. If they wouldn't let Atlus release their games with full creative control intact, I don't see why they would even bother with the purchase. Wouldn't pay off in the long run.

This was announced way too early. I'm not even looking forward to watch the movie anymore.

Though, is kinda cute how in the official site they have the tagline of the movie *screaming* the ending of P3. You know the whole 'Memento Mori' thing that wasn't as obvious at first in the game and all that.

Now that we've had Soul Hackers and the mainline SMT game of the gen, (seems like we'll get one per gen), we're likely to get P5 next. Whoever buys Atlus is going to get it, so it's going to be interesting. Depending on who buys them, they may have to start over from scratch which will delay it a while which is going to start a whole bunch of extra whining for the game on top of what we've already had.

Assuming Atlus has already started working on P5, and I'm assuming it's for PS3; maybe whoever buys them will be able to cut a deal with Atlus and let them finish releasing it on whatever platform it was intended for. Wishful thinking.

Now that we've had Soul Hackers and the mainline SMT game of the gen, (seems like we'll get one per gen), we're likely to get P5 next. Whoever buys Atlus is going to get it, so it's going to be interesting. Depending on who buys them, they may have to start over from scratch which will delay it a while which is going to start a whole bunch of extra whining for the game on top of what we've already had.

Unless we start getting something out of that SMTXFE game mentioned back in January (especially given that recent 3DS promotion).